A migrant’s story - Victoria Derbyshire

One man gives his account of being smuggled into Europe. Hundreds of migrants are suspected to have drowned when their boat sank off the coast of Libya on Sunday. They are the latest casualties of the increasingly deadly journey to Europe. Groups that monitor refugees in Calais say they expect 2015 to be far busier than last year, as more people try to escape violence in Syria, Libya and parts of East Africa. But with such severe risks, what makes people travel thousands of miles on these dangerous routes? Jim Reed spoke to one man who left Syria to make that trip to the UK.

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